Ellie Cawthorne

From bruisers and cunning thieves to bare-knuckle brawls, the Disney+ show A Thousand Blows offers viewers a ringside seat for the world of Victorian boxing. Ellie Cawthorne speaks to two historical consultants on the show, Hallie Rubenhold and Sarah Elizabeth Cox, to find out more…

Hailed as the “foremother of feminism”, Mary Wollstonecraft shook up 18th-century Britain with her barnstorming treatises on equality and women’s fundamental rights. And the thinker’s life was just as sensational and rule-breaking as her writing. Ellie Cawthorne speaks to biographer Bee Rowlatt to uncover her story

When did the Eurovision Song Contest first take place? What was the first competition like? And has it always been rocked by voting scandals? Ellie Cawthorne speaks to Dean Vuletic, a leading expert on the history of Eurovision…

Why were 19 people hanged for practising dark magic in 17th-century New England? Ellie Cawthorne, presenter of a new HistoryExtra podcast series on the events of 1692–93, examines six causes of the Salem witch trials

Irving Finkel speaks to Ellie Cawthorne about his new book, which transports us to ancient Mesopotamia to uncover the earliest written evidence of a belief in ghosts

From Caroline of Ansbach, who engaged in a long feud with her eldest son, to Josephine Baker, who created her own unique family, we look back at seven historical mums who have gone down in history. While some mothers were willing to wage war for their children, others’ offspring made them “want to vomit”…

From scathing verses on the horrors of life in the trenches to laments on the tragedy of a lost generation, the First World War inspired some of British poetry's most poignant and affecting work. Here, Ellie Cawthorne highlights five influential British writers whose lives and work were shaped by the conflict…